w00t announces that the new 1.2 breed(?) of InspIRCd is now in the ALPHA stages, the 1.2 version brings a whole mass of new stuff to the table and is as superior to 1.1.x was to 1.0.x. There are improvements to the flood control, such as fake lag - ban improvements - CPU usage is lower overall due to imrpvements and bad channels make usage of the redirection option.

Welcome to the next evolution of IRC.

InspIRCd 1.2 has (as of NOW) just hit alpha. We've been working hard for the past 14 months since 1.1's release, and we think we now have something ready to be released: 1.2 Alpha 1.

Announcement:

First I'd like to point out that this is not (yet) ready for use by the faint of heart: 1.2 does introduce some 6,000 new lines of code along with significant changes to existing code.

w00t has announced, already the next alpha release of the 1.2 series, this version brings into the fold a whole mass of fixes and improvements which only brings to myself one question "when does the inspire team sleep ?" - they seem somewhat unstoppable these days churning our quality releases in quick succession but always with a huge list of fixes, this release is no different.

w00t posted the below regarding the TexasLonghorn release:

We *did* only release a1 last week, but a lot of fixes have gone in since then, mostly trivial fixes to protocol or snotices. A few minor features have gone in also, MAP may now be requested remotely (/map server.mask), and m_shun is now in the core distribution - please use it wisely.

w00t has announced the latest release of the Inspire stable branch 1.6.19, this version brings mostly fixes to the windows build of Inspire to address these things. The announcement reads like so:

A (very) minor update to 1.1 has been released, primarily of interest to Windows users, who will now experience faster loading (and less buggy behaviour), thanks largely to the work of new contributor GreenReaper.

Primarily:
Windows builds should also now be (significantly) smaller in file size and RAM use
Windows builds no longer (tempramentally) limit the maximum number of DLLs that may be loaded.
Windows no longer crashes with alltime and stripcolour

In terms of non-windows-specific fixes and enhancements:
There is a single crash fix in versions prior 1.1.19, in KLINE use. Opers on older versions are advised to avoid KLINE, and to use GLINE instead.

Two new releases from the Inspire folks, one of which on there stable branch the other on there development branch, I'll save my feeble ramblings and get on with w00t's announcement. "A double release!

1.1.20 follows up with the latest fixes of the maintenence release. It is a HIGHLY RECOMENDED upgrade for all 1.1.19 (and prior) users, as it addresses a number of client compatibility and general stability fixes.

1.2+a4 includes a number of mostly internal changes and fixes from a3, and is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED upgrade for all current 1.2 users (things change very fast with 1.2 at the moment ;)).

As usual, changelogs follow in this post.

You can download the 1.2.0a4 release from:

• Source: http://www.inspircd.org/?p=downloads&ver=1.2.0a3
• Windows: http://www.inspircd.org/?p=downloads&ver=1.2.0a3&os=win

for the record - the correct download locations are: